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Donald Trump promised he wouldn't cut Medicaid. This week, his friends in DC voted for a bill that would leave 3.4 million Illinoisans, including 1.4 million children, in the dust. Another middle finger to working families and the most vulnerable in our state.

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This expert on autocracies dissects the motivations behind Trump’s actions extremely well open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

"Cuts have no apparent regard for civil society or opportunity costs or long-term strategic thinking. Their targets are Elon Musk’s and Project 2025’s targets. They have found no fraud, just democracy at work. They’re apparently eager to see what happens when it no longer does." Brian Barrett:

submitted 4 days ago • 74 comments

Wow. From an email sent around by appalled USAID officials: "The termination to contracts, grants, and assistance agreements over the last two weeks and the huge bulk last night were not done according to federal laws, regulations and procedures..." www.thebulwark.com/p/a-midnight...

submitted 4 days ago • 50 comments

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps. www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

submitted 8 days ago • 2971 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 10 days ago • 2529 comments

Is Elon a govt employee? If he is, he needs to be held responsible for the intense and number lies he is putting out with constant “if true then…” If he isn’t then he needs to get the hell away from my govt.

submitted 14 days ago • 557 comments

SCOOP: The top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its efforts to aid states in securing elections. The move represents the first major example of the country’s cyber defense agency accommodating Trump’s false claims of election fraud and online censorship.

submitted 17 days ago • 263 comments

Hard to know how close we are to the precipice

submitted 23 days ago • 143 comments

BIG NEWS. I have left the Post. Corporate and billionaire media are failing to meet the moment. With @normeisen.bsky.social I'm launching @contrariannews.bsky.social. We'll have politics but also cooking, humor, film and even pets. Please subscribe and join the fight. contrarian.substack.com

submitted 49 days ago • 699 comments

The Oregonian gets results. Here’s a sampling of @oregonian.com journalism that had measurable impact in 2024, rounded up by editor @tbottomly.bsky.social

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

The only good things about the Broncos today was the defense in the first half and Bo Nix. Running, receiving and play calls were all sub-par. IMHO.

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

For the second time in his rookie season ... Repost to congratulate QB Bo Nix on being named AFC Offensive Player of the Week! 📰 » buff.ly/3Waw47m

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

Putting the finishing touches on this year’s Christmas tree. Confident in the words of Abraham Lincoln: “This nation is worth fighting for to secure such an inestimable jewel.”

submitted 73 days ago • 463 comments

See below for my statement in response to Chairman Loudermilk's "Interim Report":

submitted 76 days ago • 1679 comments